Area Briefs

June 11, 2006

TRACK AND FIELDChamney finishes sixth Notre Dame junior Thomas Chamney completed a highly successful week at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships with a sixth-place finish in the finals of the 800-meter run on Saturday afternoon at Hornet Stadium inside the A.G. Spanos Sports Complex in Sacramento, Calif. In addition to earning his second career All-America citation (awarded to the top eight finishers), Chamney posted a personal-best time of 1:47.64 that was second-fastest in school history, topped only in 1969 by Joe Quigley's converted 880-yard time of 1:47.5. In three races at this week's NCAA Championships, Chamney recorded three of the top 10 times in school history (all PR's), including two of the three sub-1:48 marks in the Irish record books. On the women's side, the Irish finished up with 8.25 points -- eight from senior Molly Huddle (second place in 5,000 meters) and one-quarter point from senior Emily Loomis (tie-eighth place in high jump) -- good for 32nd place in the team standings (Auburn won the NCAA women's title). COLLEGE TENNISND's Parbhu honored Notre Dame sophomore Sheeva Parbhu has been named a singles All-American by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA). He finished with a 33-8 record and was 28th in the final ITA national singles rankings after being the first ND men's player since 1959 to advance to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Singles Championship. Parbhu posted the most singles wins by an Irish player since Ryan Sachire was 37-9 in 1998-99. COLLEGE BASEBALLWeiland a top freshman Notre Dame right-hander pitcher Kyle Weiland, whose 16 saves this season broke the team record and currently rank second in all of Division I, has been named a 2006 Freshman All-American by Collegiate Baseball magazine. Weiland compiled a 2.37 season earned-run average that ranked fourth-best on the Irish staff while making 30 appearances. USA SOCCERTwo Irish on U-20 team Two members of the Notre Dame women's soccer team -- midfielder Brittany Bock and defender Carrie Dew -- have been named to the United States Under-20 National Team that will compete at the Under-20 World Championship early this fall (Aug. 17-Sept. 3, in Russia). The 16-nation tournament in Russia will serve as the third FIFA world championship ever held for youth women's soccer, with the tournament in Russia marking the first time that the competition will be played as an Under-20 event.